BRIEFLY MINNESOTA HIRES NEW WNBA COACH.Byline: - Daily News Staff and Wire Services Former WNBA WNBA Women's National Basketball Association WNBA World Ninepin Bowling Association WNBA Wannabe Nasty Boys Association WNBA Women's National Book Association, Inc. WNBA Warszawski Nurt Basketu Amatorskiego star Suzie McConnell Serio Suzie McConnell Serio (born July 29, 1966 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a women's basketball coach and former player in the United States. She is currently the Head Coach for the women's basketball team at Duquesne University. was hired Tuesday to coach the Minnesota Lynx The Minnesota Lynx are a Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota and play their home games at the Target Center. They are currently coached by Don Zierden, who took the helm in December 2006. . McConnell Serio has been coaching at Pittsburgh's Oakland Catholic High for 13 years, including during WNBA offseasons. McConnell Serio played three seasons for the Cleveland Rockers The Cleveland Rockers was a Women's National Basketball Association team that played from 1997 until 2003. The Rockers were one of the original eight franchises of the WNBA, which started in 1997. The owner was Gordon Gund, who at the time also owned the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers. , making the All-WNBA first team as a rookie in 1998. She was a college star at Penn State in the 1980s. SNOWBOARDING: Craig Kelly, a four-time world champion and three-time U.S. Open champion, was among seven people killed Monday in a massive avalanche near Revelstoke, British Columbia Revelstoke (population 7,500 municipal est. 2005) is a city in southeastern British Columbia, Canada. It is located 641 kilometers (398 miles) east of Vancouver, and 415 kilometers (258 miles) west of Calgary, Alberta. . He was 36. SWIMMING: Ian Thorpe narrowly missed a world record in the 400-meter freestyle at a World Cup short-course meet in Stockholm, Sweden, and Jason Lezak of the United States won the 100 free. Thorpe finished in 3 minutes, 34.63 seconds, just 0.05 short of fellow Australian Grant Hackett's mark. Dragos Coman of Romania was second, nearly nine seconds behind Thorpe, world champion in the 200, 400 and 800 freestyle. Lezak finished in 47.41, beating Algeria's Salim Iles by nearly half a second. South Africa's Roland Shoeman was third. FIGURE SKATING: Elena Sokolova landed a rare triple lutz-triple toe loop combination, narrowly beating world champion and Olympic silver medalist Irina Slutskaya in the short program at the European Championships in Malmoe, Sweden. Sokolova, in her first international competition in five years, has landed the difficult combination in competition two consecutive days, including qualifying Monday. FOOTBALL: UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX received commitments from St. John Bosco of Bellflower running back Derrick Williams and receiver Joe Cowan, giving the Bruins 14 commitments. |
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